rengland@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
chalonec wrote:
I have installed FC4 and am looking for a command line way to search all
files in all directories and sub-directories on a disk for files that
contain a certain text string such as the word gateway or mode or any
word. There are so many config files on Linux that if I had this
capability I could find out which one had the information I needed so I
could then begin to identify where I might want to look to fix or
troubleshoot something other than the log files. If this were Windows,
I would just use the text search string gui by right-clicking start.
I have tried find, grep, locate, egrep, man, and the Internet and have
had varying levels of success but none seem to be consistent. There are
a dizzying number of options,
I am pretty sure grep or find should work but I can't figure out how.
Can someone help ?
A case-insensitive search for the word 'gateway' in directory /etc and
all subdirectories:
$ grep -i -r 'gateway' /etc
Paul.
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But the OP is looking for a specific string in a file in the directory
structure. I believe what is wanted is:
find . -exec grep -i -l gateway {} \;
This will search from where you are in the directory structure (.) in a
case insensitive manner (-i) and return the file name only (-l). The {}
are correct, as is the \; (backslash semicolon). Include them as is and
modify the string "gateway" as needed.
Or just use:
$ grep -i -r -l 'gateway' /etc
Paul.
